Networking

A network is a connection of devices, sometimes cables sometimes wireless, that lets one device talk to others.

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Networking • [10 items]

Bots, Crawlers and Spiders, oh my!
The terms bots, crawlers and spiders are likely to give arachnophobes the heebie-jeebies, but they're really just an important part of the way search engines work. The automated critters just go to the front page of a website, and look at every link in that page... then go to each of those and do the same, and so on.

Cookies
If you've heard Internet slang thrown around, you probably heard someone reference "cookies". What are cookies, how do they work, and what do they mean for your privacy? This article covers the basics.

EMail
The Origins, history and evolution of eMaill, forums and live chat. Ever since man learned how to communicate, he started looking for ways to improve communications. And ever since women learned how to communicate, we've had spam, and men looked for ways to filter communications. (Just a joke). Here's the basics of email.

First Network Gaming Party
My fiends and I (from the Mousehole), did the first Mac Network Gaming Party.

Network Casting and Subnets
What is Network casting and subnets? Networks are ways to break up information into smaller chunks (packets) and then send them over a shared line or radio frequency, to other devices, where the parts can be rebuilt into the whole again. Casting and Subnets are ways to send to many people at once, but not everyone.

Never trust the Internet
Think of the internet as "the net of 1,000 lies". This is a bastion of free speech. But never forget that free does not always mean "correct"! Sometimes you get what you pay for. So trust, but verify. Heck, that's good enough advice to use it every day -- the same applies to teachers in school, and textbooks, certainly politicians, and so on.

Web Basics
Have you ever wondered how the Web works? The majority of the Internet and computers are actually very simple to understand. The jargon and alphabet soup (acronyms) only make it sound more mysterious and complex than it really is. This article covers the basics of what happens when you go to a website.

Web Search Basics
The basics of searching the web, or how to use Google better. Unfortunately, Web Searching is still not very good -- partly due to complexities of language, mostly due to poor implementations. But sadly, since Google and others have done a really poor job of adapting to you, you're going to have to learn how to adapt to them.

What is DNS?
What and how Domain Names work" how to turn a human readable Domain name (like https://www.igeek.wiki) into computer readable IP address (in older v4 it's something like 192.168.2.1, in newer v6 form something like 2001:db8:85a3:8d3:1319:8a2e:370:7348).

What is a WebApp?
What is a Web Application, and how does it vary from a traditional website? Normally, when you browse, you're just looking at files on someone else's computer. But sometimes, instead of just static files, sometimes the host is running an Application that serves you simulated files based on a lot more information than just URLs/pathnames.

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Main Page
The root of all evil... and the home page for this website.

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